Rock Star Babylon

Rock Star Babylon
Author: Jon Holmes
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2008-06-24
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780452289413

Fun, shocking, and compulsively readable, Rock Star Babylon is a guilty pleasure for fans everywhere who want to know more about rock stars behaving badly. From Ozzy Osbourne to Chuck Berry, Courtney Love to Keith Moon, Rock Star Babylon has gathered together the most outrageous antics and diva-esque misbehavior in the annals of rock. Here in a single volume are the most wickedly entertaining stories of over-the-top parties, crazy divorces, hidden cameras, trashed hotel rooms, misapplied epileptic interventions, and innocent headless bats. Running the gamut from the rude to the ridiculous, these reports of rock-and-rollers at their worst come straight from the mouths of those who were there—or those who were there but left early and heard about it afterward.

Rock Bottom

Rock Bottom
Author: Pamela Des Barres
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 358
Release: 1996
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0312148534

In her familiar style, Pamela Des Barres shines light on the people whose art remains the background music to our popular culture.

Guns, Cash and Rock 'n' Roll

Guns, Cash and Rock 'n' Roll
Author: Steve Overbury
Publisher: Mainstream Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Executives
ISBN: 9781845962340

"For many years, British bands like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, The Clash, Wham! and even The Spice Girls dominated the pop world and made countless millions for themselves, their record companies and also their managers. ehind each of those bands was a guiding hand a Svengali, protecting, promoting, persuarding and occasionally punishing on the band's behalf. Some of those managers became almost as famous as the bands themselves. Brian Epstein was a household name while Malcolm McLaren, Don Arden and Peter Grant became infamous. Others, such as The Clash's Bernie Rhodes and Pink Floyd's Steve O'Rourke, were happier out of the limelight, but they shared the same strange devotion to their upstart charges. UNS, CASH AND ROCK 'N' ROLL- The Managers celebrates this special breed - often flawed low achievers but true believers, hard-nosed wheeler-dealers and schemers who were as at home talking to drug dealers and the Mafia as they were to corporate lawyers. Of the twelve managers featured, at least five of them were drug enthusiasts and four of them liked having guns to hand. Four of them died young - one committed suicide, one may have b

Sex, Genes & Rock 'n' Roll

Sex, Genes & Rock 'n' Roll
Author: Rob Brooks
Publisher: UPNE
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2011
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1611682371

Explains how evolution and genetics affect how we experience modern life.

Outlaws in Babylon

Outlaws in Babylon
Author: Steve Chapple
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2016-01-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781523335039

An inside look at the underground economy of marijuana farming in northern California and Hawaii, documents the growers, corrupt law enforcement officials, poachers, dealers, gunslingers, and others that make up this expanding outlaw industry

Popcorn

Popcorn
Author: Garry Mulholland
Publisher: Orion
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Rock films
ISBN: 9781409121664

From BLACKBOARD JUNGLE to QUADROPHENIA, from 8 MILE to ABBA: THE MOVIE, no one has seriously looked at the strange phenomenon that is the rock 'n' roll movie. Garry Mulholland turns his focus away from classic records to the best, the worst, the weird and the completely deranged from the world of the rock movie. Part serious critical appreciation, part celebration of B-movie trash, Garry Mulholland's inclusive approach is the key to his success. He is as comfortable deconstructing the likes of PERFORMANCE, GIMME SHELTER or JUBILEE as he is celebrating FOOTLOOSE or JAILHOUSE ROCK. As he writes: ' ... Anyone who rejects the joy that the likes of GREASE or DIRTY DANCING or FAME have brought millions of people without even attempting to engage with why such unapologetic trash works can't really be that interested in filmgoers at all.'

I'm With the Band: Confessions of a Groupie

I'm With the Band: Confessions of a Groupie
Author: Pamela Des Barres
Publisher: Omnibus Press
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2018-04-19
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1787590755

First published in 1987, New York Times bestseller, I’m With The Band has been reprinted throughout the years, all over the world. This is the stylish, exuberant and sweetly innocent tale of one of the most famous groupies of the 1960s and 70s. Beginning with Pamela Des Barres’ early obsession with Elvis, her own Beatlemania madness, and her fierce determination to meet the musicians who rocked her world, I’m With The Band illuminates the glory days of scintillating encounters with musical gods including Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Mick Jagger and Keith Moon. A girl just wanting to have fun, Des Barres immersed herself in the drugs, danger and ecstasy of the freewheeling 1960s. As a member of The GTOs (Girls Together Outrageously), an all-female group masterminded by Frank Zappa, Des Barres was in the thick of the most revolutionary renaissance in the history of modern popular music. She travelled with Led Zeppelin; lived in sin with Don Johnson; turned down a date with Elvis Presley; and was close friends with Robert Plant, Gram Parsons and Ray Davies. She had affairs with Mick Jagger, Jimmy Page, Keith Moon, Waylon Jennings, Chris Hillman, Noel Redding, and Jim Morrison, among others. A woman in possession of her own destiny, Des Barres blazed a trail for women’s life-writing, standing up for female voices and experience everywhere. From original diaries, told with great warmth, chutzpah and joie de vivre, this is a frank memoir that wears its heart on its sleeve, and recalls one of rock ’n’ roll’s most thrilling eras. This edition contains new material from the author, including her response to the vitriolic shaming of groupies, and a foreword by Roisin O’Connor, rock journalist and music correspondent for the Independent.

Palm Beach Babylon

Palm Beach Babylon
Author: Murray Weiss
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 592
Release: 1995
Genre: Celebrities
ISBN: 9780099377313

Only 12 miles long, Palm Beach has become America's Riviera, with grand Arabian Nights mansions and lavish champagne and caviar parties. The island has turned into the playground of influential industrialists, politicians, aristocrats and diplomats.

Take Another Little Piece of My Heart

Take Another Little Piece of My Heart
Author: Pamela Des Barres
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2008
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1569766800

Pamela Des Barres spent the sexual revolution on the ramparts as the celebrated "queen of the groupies" and chronicled her adventures with the high priests of rock in her best seller I'm With the Band. Affectionate, subversive, and funny, it was hailed by The New York Times as representing "something honorable and loving ... about the sexual honesty of modern women." It became an underground classic, an emblematic memoir of the 1960s generation.